Uptown vs Uptorn - What's the difference?
uptown | uptorn |
(chiefly, North America) the residential part of a city, away from the commercial center
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, year=1918
, year_published=2008
, edition=HTML
, editor=
, author=Edgar Rice Burrows
, title=The Land that Time Forgot
, chapter=
As a noun uptown
is (chiefly|north america) the residential part of a city, away from the commercial center.As an adverb uptown
is (us) to or in the upper part of a town.As a verb uptorn is
.uptown
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(wikipedia uptown)Noun
(en noun)See also
* downtown * oldtownuptorn
English
Verb
(head)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=I stood rigid, spellbound, watching the white wake of the torpedo. It struck us on the starboard side almost amidships. The vessel rocked as though the sea beneath it had been uptorn by a mighty volcano. }}